1. Circonstance. Si l'occasion se présente.
2. Aubaine.
3. Chance. Profiter d'une occasion.
4. De seconde main. Voiture d'occasion.
ETYM French instance, Latin instantia, from instans. Related to Instant.
1. That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.
2. Occasion; order of occurrence.
3. That which is instant or urgent; motive.
4. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
ETYM French occasion, Latin occasio, from occidere, occasum, to fall down; ob (see Ob-) + cadere to fall. Related to Chance, Occident.
1. An opportunity to do something.
2. Reason.
3. The time of a particular event.
ETYM Cf. French occurrence. Related to Occur.
An instance of something occurring.
ETYM French opportunité, Latin opportunitas. Related to Opportune.
A possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; SYN. chance.
ETYM Old Eng. time, as. tîma, akin to tîd time, and to Icel. tîmi, Dan. time an hour, Swed. timme. Related to Tide.
Continuous passage of existence, recorded by division into hours, minutes, and seconds. Formerly the measurement of time was based on the Earth's rotation on its axis, but this was found to be irregular. Therefore the second, the standard si unit of time, was redefined 1956 in terms of the Earth's annual orbit of the Sun, and 1967 in terms of a radiation pattern of the element cesium.
Universal time (ut), based on the Earth's actual rotation, was replaced by coordinated universal time (utc) 1972, the difference between the two involving the addition (or subtraction) of leap seconds on the last day of June or Dec. National observatories make standard time available in various countries. From 1986 the term Greenwich Mean Time was replaced by utc. However, the Greenwich meridian, adopted 1884, remains that from which all longitudes are measured, and the world's standard time zones are calculated from it.
(Homonym: thyme).
1. The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past.
2. An indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities).
3. An instance or single occasion for some event; SYN. clip.
4. A suitable moment.
5. A person's experience on a particular occasion; or.
6. A duration considered as a resource under one's control and sufficient to accomplish something.